At 8/25/07 02:24 PM, unfrozenMONKEY wrote:
are you guys serious? He's fuckin lyin like a bitch! It IS a picture! This is even worse than a traced pic! Where's mindchamber when you need him? ( to block threads that is )

TBH thats what i thought when i saw it, he has nothing to back up his claim that he made it, but we shouldnt just say he didnt just of the bat.
Dude put up some screenshots of the work in progress to prove us wrong maybe???

At 8/25/07 01:58 PM, S-S-X wrote:
I'm pretty proud of it. Took me about an hour to render. Is it good?
| slightly messed up jpg so the quality isn't as good as the original.

Looking at the shadow, the reflections and bumbs, I would say it's no render. I think it's a pic. If this is really 3d it could maybe render about 10 min, not an hour. Perhabs you can give us different perpectives, to proof this is really done by you.

Art is something individual, nobody should try to copy something exactly how it is. Just let it happen and it will be the most beautiful thing you've ever experienced.

At 8/25/07 02:24 PM, unfrozenMONKEY wrote:
are you guys serious? He's fuckin lyin like a bitch! It IS a picture! This is even worse than a traced pic! Where's mindchamber when you need him? ( to block threads that is )

I agree with everyone else, we need way more proof that this isn't fake, I haven't used maya or blender, but when i use inventor, i can take any part , copy pasta it, and then movie it around. I think a very easy and sure-fire way for everyone to know its not fake is for you to use multiple perspective. In the picture, have 4 bullets facing in different directions:
1 facing up
1 facing towards the viewer
1 facing away from the viewer
1 at an angle (so it would be facing (x,x,x) if you know anything about 3d geometry)

If you were smart enough it would be near impossible to find the bullet if you had stolen it, if you had for ex: Gone to google, typed in a specific ammunition type, clicked one of the pictures, then gone to the site and used from there a different picture. So unfortunately you are guilty until proven innocent in the art thread =D

At 8/26/07 12:17 PM, Tonkpils666 wrote:
looks like a picture to me and a low quality one at that if it was a render it wouldn't look that bad

There’s a lot of “render or real” type of challenges on the internet, at times even I have trouble recognizing them. Wanna give it a try? Look at this one and try to guess whether it is a render or a real photo :P
As you most likely figured out by now I work on a render farm. That being said I get to see plenty of renderings that look just as good as real pictures. Or perhaps I could just get any PNG from the internet and claim it to be a render. Would you be able to tell the difference?
Did you think the picture was a render or just a real one?